| 1895 - 588 pages
...1 Who is he that cometh, like an honoured guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...Seaman, this is he Was great by land as thou by sea." • •••»* Yet, in spite of his appreciation of the magnificent poetry of this ode, there is... | |
| American periodicals - 1853 - 672 pages
...an honor'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, * London : Moxon, 1862. With a nation weeping, and breaking on my rest ? Mighty seaman, this is he Was great by land as thou by pea. Thine island loves thec well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since our world began. Now,... | |
| C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...cometh like an honour'd gnest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, VOL. I. 2 7. With a nation weeping and breaking on my rest ? Mighty seaman, this is he Was great by land, as tbou by sea. Thine Island loves thee well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since the world began.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1855 - 180 pages
...song. 6. Who is he that cometh like an honor'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...thee the greatest soldier comes ; .» For this is he Worthy of our gorgeous rites, And worthy to be laid by thee ; For this is England's greatest son, He... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 1856 - 176 pages
...6. Who is he that cometh like .an honor'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...To thee the greatest soldier comes ; For this is he Worthy of our gorgeous rites, And worthy to be laid by thee ; For this is England's greatest son, He... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 188 pages
...6. Who is he that cometh, like an honour'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...To thee the greatest soldier comes ; For this is he Worthy of our gorgeous rites, And worthy to be laid by thee ; For this is England's greatest son, He... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1911 - 890 pages
...interpreters of any deep and enduring sentiment, and Tennyson's words about Nelson are true to-day : Thine Island loves thee well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since our world began. George Meredith's lines on Nelson, too, are both fine and true : He leads ! We hear our seaman's call,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...6. Who is he that cometh, like an honor'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...Was great by land as thou by sea. Thine island loves thec well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since our world began. Now, to the roll of muffled... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pages
...song. & Who is he that cometh, like an honor'd guest, With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest, With a nation weeping, and breaking on my...To thee the greatest soldier comes ; For this is he ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 14r, Was great by land as thou by sea ; His foes were thine... | |
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